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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 5h

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 9h

"a Marienbad-like labyrinth of winding corridors, false paths, hidden chambers and fragmentary narratives designed to entrap us in a web of confusion and contradiction": Dario Argento's Suspiria-sequel INFERNO (1980) screens 11.30pm tonight on @scream-tv.com UK projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/i...

Inferno (1980) - Projected Figures

Dario Argento's second instalment in his 'Three Mothers' trilogy, INFERNO, is either a deliciously surreal labyrinth, or a godawful mess.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 9h

"In this satirical body horror, a Los Angeles woman’s eating disorder births a monstrous, all-consuming doppelgänger": Nathan Hertz's THINESTRA (2025) screens 9pm tonight at @screamfest.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/06/22/t...

Thinestra - DMovies

In this satirical body horror, a Los Angeles woman’s eating disorder births a monstrous, all-consuming doppelgänger - from Raindance

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 9h

"a mesmerising, if confounding, danse macabre that treads that strange terrain between the psychological and the magical": Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977) screens 9pm on @scream-tv.com UK projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/s...

Suspiria (1977) - Projected Figures

Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA is a baroque piece of esoteric expressionism that you enter - and exit - without understanding so much as feeling.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 9h

New Extremity Collection Volume 2 (1997, 2001, 2002, 2003) Blu-ray Collector's Edition is out today from @umbrellaent.bsky.social, and includes my video essay "'I'm too dry, my love': arid relationships and desert politics in Bruno Dumont's TWENTYNINE PALMS" shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/new...

New Extremity Collection Volume 2 (1997, 2001, 2002, 2003) Blu-ray Col

Volume 2 continues to showcase landmark films that redefined the boundaries of cinema at the turn of the millennium. This provocative selection of four films dives deep into the flesh, psyche, and tab...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10h

“places a trio of art thieves in a haunted littoral setting buffeted by myth”: Samuel Clemens’ sophisticated feature debut THE DROWNED (fka THE WATERHOUSE, 2023) is on digital platforms in Australia/New Zealand from today projectedfigures.com/2023/10/27/t...

The Drowned (fka Waterhouse) (2023) - Projected Figures

Samuel Clemens' sophisticated feature debut THE DROWNED places a trio of art thieves in a haunted littoral setting buffeted by myth

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 10h

Salami-fest: Andrew Traucki’s seaborne slasher THE REEF (2010) "pits four floating humans against a circling shark, for harrowing thrills of an existentialist bent". Out on Blu-ray from today via @umbrellaent.bsky.social. My old review: projectedfigures.com/2013/06/20/t...

The Reef (2010) - Projected Figures

Andrew Traucki's THE REEF pits four floating humans against a circling shark, for harrowing thrills of an existentialist bent.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 11h

"places an amnesiac woman in a family home that she does not recognise where problems compound and multiply": BT Meza’s genre-fied domestic tragedy AFFECTION (2025) just had its world première opening @screamfest.bsky.social
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Affection (2025) - Projected Figures

BT Meza's genre-fied domestic tragedy AFFECTION places an amnesiac woman in a home that she does not recognise where problems multiply

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

BLADE RUNNER. THE THING. A lot of films bombed in 1982.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

I am honestly happy to know no more about Myers' origin than we learnt in the first feature, but I realise that's just me

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

failed, though?

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

When people complain that HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH "isn't really part of the franchise", and all you can think is that this is precisely why it is good.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

"when it comes to genre, Ito, like his protagonist, just will not be confined or restrained": Shunya Ito's FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: JAILHOUSE 41 (1972) screens 3.45pm today at @princecharlescinema.com Highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2016/07/28/f...

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) - Projected Figures

Shunya Ito's Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 is as aesthetically striking and deliriously weird a WIP pic as is ever likely to be made.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

The tense, surreal, frustrating police procedural of Bong Joon-ho's MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) shows a parochial nation stumbling and bumbling its way into modernity. Highly recommended. Screens 12.45pm today at the @princecharlescinema.com projectedfigures.com/2018/02/04/m...

Memories of Murder (2003) - Projected Figures

Bong Joon-ho's MEMORIES OF MURDER is an unusual combination of police procedural docudrama, ambivalent nostalgia piece, dark comedy and existential thriller.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

The thing is...: in John Carpenter's SF horror THE THING (1982) "nobody is all man (or all woman), and no one can fully escape the alterity within". This stone cold classic screens 12.15pm today at the @princecharlescinema.com projectedfigures.com/2018/04/03/t...

The Thing (1982) - Projected Figures

John Carpenter's SF horror THE THING pits a team of isolated manly men against one another in a desperate bid to stave off the monstrous feminine within.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

haha, I had never noticed that

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Mummy, mania, murder, maximalism, mambo!: SANTA SANGRE (1989) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical take on life's cruel, illusory circus, all expressed through the idioms of the slasher genre. Absolute classic, 7.10pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2016/03/24/s...

Santa Sangre (1989) - Projected Figures

Santa Sangre first published by Little White Lies When Midnight Movie maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) was commissioned by producer Claudio Argento, brother of giallo king Dario, to “m...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

“places a trio of art thieves in a haunted littoral setting buffeted by myth”: Samuel Clemens’ sophisticated feature debut THE DROWNED (fka THE WATERHOUSE, 2023) is on North American platforms from today via #SunriseFilms projectedfigures.com/2023/10/27/t...

The Drowned (fka Waterhouse) (2023) - Projected Figures

Samuel Clemens' sophisticated feature debut THE DROWNED places a trio of art thieves in a haunted littoral setting buffeted by myth

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Exploitation, cruelty and deep deep guilt combine to torment a middle-aged widower looking for new love, in Takashi Miike's peerlessly nightmarish horror romance AUDITION (1999), on @arrowplayer.bsky.social from today. An all-time great. #RueMorguePresents projectedfigures.com/2014/07/02/t...

The Twenty Best FrightFest Films Ever (2013) - Projected Figures

Twenty of my favourite films to have featured at FrightFest between the years 2000 and 2012, culminating in Takashi Miike's AUDITION

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Brilliantly self-aware bargain (de)basement haunted house schlocker: Jack Hill's SPIDER BABY, OR THE MADDEST STORY EVER TOLD (1967) is on @arrowplayer.bsky.social from today #RueMorguePresents projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/s...

Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) - Projected Figures

Jack Hill's hilarious haunted house schlocker SPIDER BABY opens the doors on America's demented, diseased history of horror, before burying it beneath the foundations of the genre's next golden age.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

Fabrice Du Welz's unhinged, uncategorisable CALVAIRE (2004) is "a dark Christmas parable of projection and performance, where art is sacrifice". This funny, freakish tale of a cabaret singer's martyrdom is on @arrowplayer.bsky.social from today #RueMorgueSelects projectedfigures.com/2014/08/17/c...

Calvaire (The Ordeal) (2004) - Projected Figures

Fabrice Du Welz's feature debut CALVAIRE is a dark Christmas parable of projection and performance, where art is sacrifice

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

In Daniel Kokotajlo’s Seventies-set psychodrama/folk horror STARVE ACRE (2023), "disturbing behaviour does not fall far from the tree"
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Starve Acre (2023) - Projected Figures

In Daniel Kokotajlo’s Seventies-set psychodrama/folk horror STARVE ACRE, disturbing behaviour does not fall far from the tree

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect Creature (2006) d. Glenn Standring
Another film from Umbrella's 'Kiwi Kult' collection vol 1. A refreshingly different take on the Vampire mythos. Interesting essay in the extras on this one and 'The Irrefutable Truth About Demons' (2000) by @antbit.projectedfigures.com

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

thank you!

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 1d

oh nice!

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